-- Apologies for redundant copies of this call -- -- Please feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested -- ======================================================== 12th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2016) 16-20 December, 2016 Organized by Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India Jaipur, India http://www.iciss.org.in ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ================ The conference series ICISS (International Conference on Information Systems Security), held annually, provides a forum for disseminating latest research results in information and systems security. ICISS 2016, the twelfth in the series, will be held in Jaipur, India from December 16 to 20, 2016. The acceptance ratio of the first ten conferences has averaged less than 30%. Like previous years, proceedings of the conference will be published as part of the Springer Verlag series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Submissions are encouraged from academia, industry and government, addressing theoretical and practical problems in information and systems security and related areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Access and Usage Control • Authentication and Audit • Cloud Security • Cyber-physical Systems Security • Digital Forensics • Distributed Systems Security • Identity Management • Intrusion Tolerance and Recovery • Language-based Security • Network Security • Privacy and Anonymity • Security and Usability • Sensor and Ad Hoc Network Security • Software Security • Vulnerability Detection and Mitigation • Application Security • Biometric Security • Cryptographic Protocols • Data Security and Privacy • Digital Rights Management • Formal Models in Security • Intrusion Detection and Prevention • Key Management • Malware Analysis and Mitigation • Operating Systems Security • Secure Data Streams • Security Testing • Smartphone Security • Usable Security • Web Security PAPER SUBMISSION: ----------------------- Papers should be formatted as they would appear in the final LNCS proceedings. Papers should be at most 20 pages in length, including the bibliography and appendix (if any). PDF version of the paper should be submitted via the EasyChair submission site - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss2016 - by the deadline 29 July 2016. Starting with ICISS 2016, the conference has instituted two awards — a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. For a paper to be considered for the Best Student Paper award, the paper must have been authored with a student as the first author. For student papers, the authors must indicate so at the time of submission. Detailed submission instructions can be found at the conference web site - http://www.iciss.org.in. One of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the paper. ICISS accepts only electronic submissions in PDF format. Camera-Ready manuscripts must be submitted in source format in LaTeX. DUAL SUBMISSION POLICY: ------------------------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers published or currently submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------------- Manuscript Submission: 29 July, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: 15 September, 2016 Camera-Ready Manuscript: 26 September 2016 General Chairs (for all conference related questions except paper submission) ----------------- Manoj S. Gaur, MNIT Jaipur <[log in to unmask]> Dheeraj Sanghi, IIIT Delhi <[log in to unmask]> Program Co-Chairs (for paper submission related questions) --------------------- Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA <[log in to unmask]> Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy <[log in to unmask]> V. Kamakoti, IIT, Madras <[log in to unmask]>